How crime affects SA: 9 figures from StatsSA's report

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Pretoria - Statistician General Pali Lehohla released the Victims of Crime Survey 2016/17 report by Statistics South Africa on Thursday.

Here are nine figures from the report you should know:

1. Approximately seven percent of households in South Africa were victims of crime in 2016/17 compared to about nine percent [of] households in 2015/16.

2. An estimated total of 1.5 million crime incidents were experienced by approximately 1.2 million households in 2016/17.

3. Housebreaking incidents decreased by eight percent.

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Sexual offences increased by 110% - StatsSA

Pretoria - Crime experienced by households and individuals, aged 16 years and older, in South Africa has been decreasing, but hijackings and sexual offences has increased sharply, the Victims of Crime Survey 2016/17 report released by Statistics South Africa revealed on Thursday.

"Approximately seven percent of households in South Africa were victims of crime in 2016/17 compared to about nine percent [of] households in 2015/16.

"The estimated number of incidents of crime also decreased for many types of crime," Statistician-General Pali Lehohla said on releasing the report at StatsSA's ISIbalo House in Pretoria.

Housebreaking incidents decreased by eight percent; home robbery decreased by 25 percent; and theft of personal property decreased by 12 percent.

However, hijacking of motor vehicles and sexual offences increased sharply by 93 percent and 110 percent respectively.

StatsSA cautioned that hijackings and sexual offences statistics should be used cautiously as they fall under the second level of quality of acceptable statistics due to the small number of respondents that experienced the crimes in this category.

"The number of households which experienced crime have declined percentage-wise, that is the reality. The only province where they [crime figures] tended to increase is Limpopo as well as KwaZulu-Natal -- the rest show a decline in experiencing crime albeit very moderate declines," said Lehohla.

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Crime Survey: South Africans feel vulnerable

MORE than half of households in South Africa that have been hit by crime in the past year, have been victims of housebreaking and/or burglary according to the Stats SA Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS).

The survey, published on Thursday, looks at the crime trends in the country for the year 2016-17. It looks at individual crimes and household crimes and the common crimes that continue to create an atmosphere of fear among the country's citizens.

It found that the crime rate in the country was in the decline, although this was at a very slow pace. There was still a very high general feeling among the population of being unsafe, especially when walking at night.

The VOCS found that housebreaking and burglary were followed by theft of livestock, poultry and other animals owned by the household, as well as home robbery.

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